Council Quick Takes
Cleveland Heights Moves to Secure Grants For Cedar Fairmount Improvements
City Council approves applications to help with matching funds required for $1.5 million federal grant
Cleveland Heights City Council is looking to make up $375,000 in required matching funds for a federal streetscape improvement grant through state and local grants. Council approved two applications for grants to help fund the Cedar Fairmount Streetscape Improvement Project. The project received a $1.5 million grant from the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, but the city is required to match the grant with $375,000. City Councilman Dennis Wilcox said that the city is trying to secure as much of this as possible from other grants. The city is applying for $10,000 from the Bikes Belong Coalition and for an undetermined amount of money from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to help with the planned Cedar Glen Multipurpose …
Garry Kanter
3:03 am on Friday, January 25, 2013
This is a lousy plan. Hardly any real bike lanes. In 2013, in CH, *that* close to CWRU, there should be *dedicated* bike lanes. Instead, the regular lanes will be marked to indicate that bikers use them, too! That has a fancy word, "Sharrows". Which means, "shared-lane marking". There *is* actually some worthwhile (pedestrian) stuff in this project, but not *nearly* enough for the 21st century. … more ›